{"id":41399,"date":"2026-03-31T03:01:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=41399"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:01:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:01:44","slug":"youve-done-all-you-could-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2026\/03\/youve-done-all-you-could-march\/","title":{"rendered":"You’ve done all you could, March"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now it’s time to let it go. And we do so with the month-end abstract of course. March left us with two, to split between all of us. Evenly<\/em>, so don’t be claiming more than your share. They look like this:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This wouldn’t have been half as good without the stippled coloration, which I believe<\/em> is a breast feather from a male wood duck – see here<\/a>. I would have liked to have gotten closer, perhaps used one of those drops as a lens for the feather underneath it, but it was a little ways offshore and I didn’t feel like getting wet – it is<\/em> still March, you know, and certainly was then too, since this was shot on the 1st<\/sup>. Sure, you can mutter all you want about a lack of dedication to my art – as long as you’re one of those who’ve actually bought a print.<\/p>\n

And then there’s this one:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If your memory of previous posts is sharp (or you’ve been there yourself,) you should know what this is, but as many times in the past as I’ve posted something that really stretches the definition of ‘abstract,’ I think this one fits pretty well. I probably should have inverted it to make it even more so, an impressionistic painting, but I left it this way just to support the idea that it’s a reflection.<\/p>\n

I don’t actually have a final tally on the number of images uploaded for March, because of stupid shit, but it’s significant. The spring’s off to a good start, anyway…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now it’s time to let it go. And we do so with the month-end abstract of course. March left us with two, to split between all of us. Evenly, so don’t be claiming more than your share. They look like this: This wouldn’t have been half as good without the stippled coloration, which I believe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[1529,4948,8589,5181,8633,8347,4947],"class_list":["post-41399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-abstract","tag-aix-sponsa","tag-lake-mattamuskeet","tag-reflection","tag-stippling","tag-water-drops","tag-wood-duck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41404,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41399\/revisions\/41404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}